iscoverAfter being convicted and sentenced to jail, Georgia Sellick has had her BAS agent registration terminated by the TPB.
Convicted BAS agent has registration terminated for 5 years
24 July 2025
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Following an investigation into Georgia Sellick, the Board Conduct Committee (BCC) of the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has terminated her BAS agent registration.
It was decided by the BCC that Sellick should be prohibited from applying for registration under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) for five years from the date the termination took effect.
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Sellick was terminated after the BCC found she was “not a fit and proper person” and had engaged in conduct which breached the TASA and multiple items of the Code of Professional Conduct.
The decision came after Sellick was sentenced to prison for embezzling $260,000 from local businesses between March 2019 and September 2021.
As reported by The Herald Sun in October 2024, the Melbourne County Court heard that Sellick had used the embezzled money in the renovation of her family home and the motivation to “give her kids a better life”.
The BCC said, based on the serious nature of Sellick’s conviction and imprisonment sentence, it terminated her registration and noted the role of the TPB was to ensure consumer protection with the objective to “protect and maintain the integrity of the registered BAS agent profession”.
The BCC found Sellick to have breached the code by failing to:
· Act honestly and with integrity by misappropriating funds totalling $261,907, disguising them as payments to suppliers or ATO super payment and using the funds for her personal benefit.
· Act honestly and with integrity by knowingly making a false statement to the board in her registration renewal application by not disclosing matters affecting her good fame, integrity and character.
· Comply with the tax laws in the conduct of her personal affairs when she failed to notify the TPB of a change in her circumstances within 30 days of when the event occurred.
· Account for money she had received on behalf of her employer for the misappropriation of client funds by transferring funds from her employers’ bank accounts, without their knowledge or authorisation, into accounts for her personal benefit.
The BCC noted that the changes in Sellick’s circumstances that she had failed to notify the TPB of included, being arrested and making full admissions to police regarding the theft of employer funds, being charged and bailed for the criminal offence of theft, pleading guilty to the three charges of theft and being convicted, being sentenced to a term of imprisonment and a community corrections order.
“In deciding to terminate Mrs Sellick’s registration, the BCC noted the nature and seriousness of the conduct fell short of the appropriate standards of professional and ethical conduct expected of a registered tax practitioner,” the BCC said.
“The BCC concluded that it could not have any confidence that Mrs Sellick would continue to uphold the requisite standards in future if she were to remain registered.
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